Sommerbergbahn
48.7502058.544193Koordinaten: 48 ° 45 '1 " N, 8 ° 32' 39" E
The Summer Mountain Railway is a funicular railway in Baden- Württemberg, the Bad Wildbad (420 m above sea level. NN ) leads out to the summer mountain. The length of the track is 756 meters, the height difference to the intermediate station "Panorama Station" 80 meters, to the mountain station " Summer Mountain " 291 meters. The slope is between 37% and 53 %. It run two cars on a track width of 1,000 mm ( meter gauge ), who meet at the lying in the middle passing place.
Summer mountain is a popular destination with views of Bad Wildbad and the Enz Valley, also a starting point for hiking and cycling. At the base station on Uhlandplatz is an interchange with Line S6, the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe. About the touristic purposes, the Summer Mountain Railway also offers a regular public transport link between the residential summer mountain and the core city.
History
The summer mountain railway was opened on May 23, 1908 Construction began in April, 1907., The construction was made possible only by private investors, who founded a corporation to build the railway. The technical equipment such as rails and carriages were supplied by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. The batteries came from the Akkumulatorenfabrik Berlin, the wire from the Felten & Guilleaume from Cologne. For the construction work the company C. Baresel from Untertürkheim was responsible.
1910 was the train into the possession of the city, since it is run as a municipal house operation. 1928 and 1968 she was modernized in each case, between burned in 1947, the waiting and observation hall from the mountain station. In April 2004, extensive work to clean up the escape routes were carried out to the introduced restrictions have now been lifted.
From 29 November 2010, the mountain lifts a complete renovation was subjected. It will complete the rail track and the rest of the operating technology including cars was renewed. This was necessary to preserve the future of the web. The outage lasted until the fall of 2011 and a new building was the same. On 30 September 2011 the new summer mountain railway undertook its maiden voyage and was opened from 1st to 3rd October with a ceremony.
The modernization of 1928 the technical director of the Stuttgart trams AG (SSB ), Paul Loercher headed, who came from Calw, near Wildbad. Experience with the Wildbader train were incorporated into the construction of the funicular Stuttgart SSB. This was also built in 1929 by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen and put into operation, as the first semi-automatic funicular railway in Germany.